Focus Group by Amy Ward

Focus Group Questions

1.What would you expect to see in a thriller?
2.What certificate would you expect a thriller to be?
3.What would you like to see in a thriller?
4.What characters should there be?
5.To what target audience should we focus on marketing our film to?
6.Where would you expect a thriller to be set?
7.Do you know exactly what a thriller is?

Participants: Simone Newton, Jeremy Williams, Joe Bailey, Mark Bansor, James Dick, Keshav Patel

1. Action, suspense, car chases, eerie music, sex, dead bodies, a twist, men in suits

2. 15

3. A venerable female character, twist at the end, simple ideas, Makes you think –Physiological

4. Male and Female couple ,Mysterious Character, Bad Guy, Minimal amount of characters, Villain, Funny Guy

5. Teenagers, 18-25,Parents with young children

6. America, Suburbs, At Night, Run down areas, Jungle, Forest, Silent? Isolated areas

7.Simone: “A film that scares you and has suspense”
Jeremy: “A film with everything”
Joe: “A film that has twists and is there to thrills you, a strange plot”
Keshav: “Action with suspense”
Mark: “I do not know”